Gemma Arterton's Biography part 2
Continued from Gemma Arterton biography Part 1
In March 2008, the BBC reported that Gemma Arterton would play the lead role in a four-hour adaptation of Tess Of The D'Urbervilles to be broadcast in the autumn on BBC One.
In December 2008, The Mail reported that Gemma Arterton had broken up with Eduardo Munoz, who has also been referred to as Eduardo Gago.
In 2009, Gemma Arterton continued to be cast in prominent roles including playing demi-goddess Io in Clash of the Titans and Desiree in The Boat That Rocked.
In May 2009, it was announced that Gemma Arterton is to star as Cathy in a remake of Wuthering Heights directed by Peter Webber.
In July 2009, The Mail reported that Gemma Arterton had got engaged to Stefano, who had been Daniel Craig's body double in Quantum of Solace.
In 2009 Gemma Arterton was cast opposite Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
Also in 2009, filming began on Stephen Frears' version of comic strip and graphic novel Tamara Drewe, starring Gemma Arterton as Tamara.
April 2010 saw the release of The Disappearance of Alice Creed, in which she played a millionaire's daughter who is kidnapped.
In January 2011, Gemma Arterton was nominated for a Bafta Rising Star award.
Gemma Arterton's fingers
In 2008 in an interview with Esquire magazine Gemma Arterton revealed that she was born with six fingers on each hand, a condition known as polydactyly, which affects one child in a thousand. According to the Daily Mail, "the doctor who delivered her tied off the extra fingers with sutures and they fell off, leaving just small scars."
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